Episode 007: John Kolp, Virginia, and State History

This week, Al Zambone speaks with John Kolp, Emeritus Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy. He’s the author of Gentlemen and Freeholders: Electoral Practices in Colonial Virginia, and one of the four co-authors of Old Dominion, New Commonwealth: A New History of Virginia. There are few better people to talk about Virginia with, or why we should bother to write the history of the individual states of the United States. After all, isn’t state history just for fourth graders?